On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Roland Dreier wrote: > > from my days submitting numerous patches of this type, i can recall > > that in cases like the above, it's a judgment call -- use kzalloc to > > get the zeroing, or use kcalloc to get the array-flavoured behaviour. > > what a shame you can't have both at the same time. > > kcalloc() zeros memory just like standard calloc() in userspace. > > As <linux/slab.h> says: > > * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
oops. quite right, my bad. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
